Monday, June 23, 2014

One of my favorite things to do is go out and pick what ever I need for dinner. I am definitely an "outdoors person", and if I don't go outside at least once a day, I feel so cooped up-for lack of a better word(who ever is like me knows what I mean). When it is my meal day to cook, my routine is to prep dinner around 3:00pm, then at 3:30 go out and get my garden goodies, and lastly cook at 4:00pm, to eat at 5:00. Because I love wild edibles, my family will vouch that many times I have a new special "ingredient" in my pot... along with many herbs from my garden.

Here is a few pictures of my new garden plot, I am still trying to figuar out a good way to keep weeds down, so please exscuse the underconstruction garden.

The main garden bed:

My new tire garden:

My close up on the main garden plot:

I hope you enjoyed these pictures!

Kari Kanani

P.S. If anyone has a suggestion in getting stuborn grass out of the ground let me know!

Friday, June 13, 2014

Recently I found a really neat pattern off a knitting website which I would like to share with you. It is on ravelry, a free online website for knitters and crocheters with tons of neat patterns. Anyway, here is the story behind the piano scarf...

The Piano Scarf Story-

My son, Mikkel, wanted a scarf and he wanted it to be an exact copy of a real piano keyboard with 88 keys. Every key had to have the real size.

I knitted it with 3 mm needles, which resulted in almost perfect size. I knitted it double and sew it together. The scarf is knitted in intarsia. I used 2 balls of black and 3 balls of white at the same time, so I did not have to break the yarn. My son, Mikkel, has been playing classical music on his piano since he was 6 years old, now he is 22.

So if you know anyone who is a really great pianist, this is a challenging, yet rewarding pattern to try.

I went through a season of not blogging for a few months. With school studies and daily life, I believe my time was well spent getting everything organized that I needed to. My blogging time is not to clutter life with my family, friends, and most importantly, the One True Elohim. So, right off, I want you as my reader to understand that I will most likely not be writing very often, yet I have decided I would like to make this blog about the following topics to help organize my finds, mainly, and hopefully help pass on information to others that have the same interests as me.

Topics for the Revised Riding Down the Lane:

-Wild Edibles

-Natural Healing

-Cooking

-Knitting

There might be more topics I write about, but my main topics will be wild edibles/ herb finds. So come and join me on my adventures learning about herbs from a biblical view!